Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to make a couple of quick comments on this issue. I have been listening with interest from the outset, when the original conflict of interest complaint was filed against Mrs. Groenewegen for having her name as director on the board of a company that she owns. I watched with interest as a bias application stated the Conflict Commissioner had a bias. Following that, over the news, I hear that there is a tape recording, people listening in to phone calls -- it really paints us all with the same brush, that there are a lot of things happening in this Assembly that are not totally on the up and up.

However, I think we still have the original conflict of interest complaint to deal with. That is something that has been left hanging for a long time, longer than it should have been. The bias application that was there has been revoked. It has been withdrawn and is no longer there. Even though some people have stated that the Minister is still alleging that the Conflict of Interest Commissioner -- she is still making the allegation that there is a bias -- she has withdrawn those comments. She has withdrawn the application. She does not feel strongly enough that there is a bias there to keep her application and follow through with the process, then I do not think we should pursue it.

We may be leaving a doubt. That is true. I, like other people in this room and across the Territories, would love to hear what is on that tape, but until somebody files another complaint, I think we are going to have to live with that.

I really had to ask myself a lot of questions here today, mostly over the tape. Is that the big issue here? Is that what we are looking at extending the mandate for? This issue, which should have been a simple process to deal with, has drawn, has taken a lot of time and money. Where is it going to go next?

I do not know. Was there wrongdoing in some of the other stuff that has come up, especially with the tape and listening in to a phone call? I am told not legally, so I cannot support this motion. Until somebody files a new complaint and starts a new process, I think we have to go back and deal with what was originally in front of us, and that is the conflict of interest complaint.

We have other things to deal with. I know from discussions with some of the constituents in my riding, they feel that we are making a bigger issue out of this than we should have. I have to agree with them. I would like to see this wrapped up. I will not be supporting this motion. Thank you.